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The Power Four => Big Ten => Topic started by: Wildcat4E on December 23, 2025, 11:47:23 AM
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I'm in charge this year at my place, small gathering, so the leftovers are going to blow up Keto living for the foreseeable future. I have a pretty good dose of (recent) will power, but not that much.
Details forthcoming. Alone in the office, very long list of crap to work on, but I tend to find reasons to procrastinate--I think that's another prereq for the career choice--and especially when tasks I really don't wanna f'ing do await.
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I'm an esteemed guest at my little brother's house
So, I just wait around for someone else to prepare the food!
I'm a very patient man.
Especially when drinks are plentiful
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Christmas Eve, probably start at noon and have the Sean Connery Board ready around 4:
My mother's cheese ball:
16 oz cream cheese, softened
1 jar of Old English
" " Pimento Spread
~8 ounces sharp cheddar shredded cheese
Combine and roll in chopped pecans.
Jalapeno Jelly/Cream Cheese
8 oz, dump a small jar of jalepeno jelly over the top
Baked Brie, take a wheel and put sauteed onions on top, wrap in frozen puff pastry dough and bake, daughter has procured the cheese already.
Bunch of fancy cheeses, summer sausages, and sliced deli meats.
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Tonight (engagement-versary) - Wife and I will go to our local wine bar where we got engaged on Dec 23, 2017, and legally married the following March. Might eat a lighter meal there, or might go over to the Italian spot next door for dinner.
Christmas Eve - No kids this year. Wife and I are doing paella.
Christmas Day - Have the kids starting Thursday until New Year's morning + BIL's family. 11 total. His wife's bringing appetizer and dessert. We're doing prime rib, mashed potatoes, green beans, and rolls.
Friday - Wife's "sibling Christmas" which is all 4 of her siblings (incl her) and families at BIL's house. 18 total. Not sure of the exact menu, but it'll be Italian. Wife is making tiramisu.
Saturday - Wife's traditional "Christmas Eve" celebration with her girlfriends (and now their families), at our house. 13 total. This year's theme is fiesta, so we'll be doing chips & salsa/guac, carne asada and carnitas tacos, crema rice, cilantro lime rice, pinto beans, and churros for dessert.
Then we head into New Year's...
NYE - Boeuf bourgignon over mashed potatoes. Wife will also make a chocolate bundt cake for dessert.
NYD - Kids head back to their mom's so we're going to sugar them up with cinnamon rolls for breakfast and then send them on their way. Then watch football, and will make Michael Symon's lucky pork stew for the two of us for dessert.
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@Brutus Buckeye (https://www.cfb51.com/index.php?action=profile;u=31) -- here's one more reason that I celebrate this holiday... It's a great excuse for the food :57::72:
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Tomorrow it's just us and we are going on a golf cart ride to deliver presents to our friends inside the walls here in the Marina.
After we will come home to crab legs, asparagus and baked potatoes.
Christmas Day we are having all of those friends over for an open house. Everyone will bring something. I'm making meatballs, and we'll have the Sean Connery (I like this name) board and veggie board too.
I'll be drinking my new favorite vodka. TopCraft out of St. Louis.
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NYE we are going to a party at the local bar inside the walls of the Marina. It's a blast.
NYD we are going out to eat at an Italian place (Carmelo's) in town. We will split this and a pasta dish.
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01/02 is a relax day.
01/03 is my birthday - dinner at my favorite.
The Perfect Caper – Punta Gorda, FL (https://theperfectcaper.com/)
01/04 is packing.
01/05 is leaving for Cabo.
Gotta mix in some boating too.
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I'm really going over the top tomorrow, but damn it, that's how I grew up!
Spiral-cut ham, Cranberry-Orange Marmalade I have done, u-tube the Meat Church guy for that, it's Fantastic
Turkey Breast, undetermined but will probably do a cajun rub and stuff butter under the skin.
Both of those go on the Traeger.
Cheesy baked Hashbrown Potatoes
Baked Sweet Potatoes
Green Bean Casserole
Cheesy Corn Casserole
Better than Sex Cake (not the pudding version my MIL makes)
Apple Crisp with Vanilla Ice Cream (No sugar added, and what a big difference that will make)
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I suggested we dine at our favorite Thai place, my wife demurred. Just the two of us this year.
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Over Thanksgiving weekend the big group went to a Thai place in a dumpy looking strip mall near the Air Force Base in Wichita. Probably didn't need to give both descriptions, anything near a military base is dumpy.
However, we ordered family style and tons of it, and it was freaking fantastic.
And nothing got graffiti'd or stolen while we were inside, which was a bonus.
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NYE we are going to a party at the local bar inside the walls of the Marina. It's a blast.
NYD we are going out to eat at an Italian place (Carmelo's) in town. We will split this and a pasta dish.
(https://i.imgur.com/cuJgxQd.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/v04xcZf.png)
01/02 is a relax day.
01/03 is my birthday - dinner at my favorite.
The Perfect Caper – Punta Gorda, FL (https://theperfectcaper.com/)
01/04 is packing.
01/05 is leaving for Cabo.
Gotta mix in some boating too.
Looks like a nice and and beginning of the year.
I'm going to have to drag myself in and work next week, since my children conned us into taking a cruise for a week starting the 11th.
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Christmas Day
Prime Rib. Procured a 5.6 lb bone-in (there are only 5 of us) for $10/lb at the local Dillons/Kroger.
I am undecided on prep method as of this writing. Oven at 500 for the mathematical calculation and then off; Smoke at 225 until 125, then lengthy rest and into that 500 oven to sear.
To me, the best part is the crispy bits and the spinalis. Watched a guy cut off the bones and re-tie them over that portion while cooking at 225 in an oven, then removed, rest for 40 minutes and seared in cast iron.
Going to have to contemplate some more on all this.
I have traditionally done the high-heat beginning with au jus in the bottom of the pan consisting of red wine and beef broth, with the meat resting on big carrots, celery, and red onions to keep it up out of the liquid. We had a very sick child one time, and she attributes her living through it to that meal.
Mashed potatoes to go with all the other leftover sides from the night before, and a salad.
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Christmas Day
Prime Rib. Procured a 5.6 lb bone-in (there are only 5 of us) for $10/lb at the local Dillons/Kroger.
I am undecided on prep method as of this writing. Oven at 500 for the mathematical calculation and then off; Smoke at 225 until 125, then lengthy rest and into that 500 oven to sear.
To me, the best part is the crispy bits and the spinalis. Watched a guy cut off the bones and re-tie them over that portion while cooking at 225 in an oven, then removed, rest for 40 minutes and seared in cast iron.
Going to have to contemplate some more on all this.
I have traditionally done the high-heat beginning with au jus in the bottom of the pan consisting of red wine and beef broth, with the meat resting on big carrots, celery, and red onions to keep it up out of the liquid. We had a very sick child one time, and she attributes her living through it to that meal.
Mashed potatoes to go with all the other leftover sides from the night before, and a salad.
Same here- prime rib on Christmas Day, with mashed potatoes, homemade gravy, green bean casserole, and rolls. French silk pie for dessert.
Christmas Eve tradition- home made pizza with my daughters, even if we are not together. we do FaceTime.
The high heat to start, is the bomb for prime rib. You’re right about the best part.
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NYE we are going to a party at the local bar inside the walls of the Marina. It's a blast.
NYD we are going out to eat at an Italian place (Carmelo's) in town. We will split this and a pasta dish.
(https://i.imgur.com/cuJgxQd.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/v04xcZf.png)
01/02 is a relax day.
01/03 is my birthday - dinner at my favorite.
The Perfect Caper – Punta Gorda, FL (https://theperfectcaper.com/)
01/04 is packing.
01/05 is leaving for Cabo.
Gotta mix in some boating too.
Happy Birthday Badge! ( yes- little early)
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Christmas Eve is at my folks' house. BBQ pork tenderloin with cranberry-orange mustard chutney, twiced bake potatoes, creamed spinach, yeast rolls, black forest pie aka supreme surpise for dessert. It's an "away" year for all of my nephews and their families plus my sister's in Colordado with her boyfriend's family, so it'll be light attendance, just 5 adults and 3 teenagers.
Christmas morning breakfast at my inlaws, spiral cut honey glazed ham, egg casserole, hash brown casserole, croissants from a local French bakery with strawberry butter.
Christmas afternoon/lunch back at my parents' house, this will be basically a redux from Thanksgiving. Fried turkey, cornbread dressing, green bean casserole, sausage-cheese grits, dinner rolls, pumpkin pie.
NYE is camping, so it's steak au poivre grilled over mesquite coals, baked potato, asparagus, and blueberry cobbler in the Lodge Dutch oven over a campfire.
NYD is my camping friends' jambalaya, gumbo, blackeyed peas, and whatever desserts are sill around.
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No wonder you go on the wagon in January.Gotta wash all that down with something and I've never heard you mention prune juice or H2O
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brother's family does a fondue Christmas eve
frying skewers of meat and vegies and other stuff in boiling peanut oil and dipping in molten cheese
sweet stuff later in melted chocolate
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I'm out on anything where people are pulling utensils out of their mouths and inserting them into a communal pot.
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I recall when fondue was kind of a rage. My wife still talks about going to the Melting Pot, a place I found ... meh.
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I'm out on anything where people are pulling utensils out of their mouths and inserting them into a communal pot.
I try not to pick my teeth with the skewer
yes, I'll be wearing a turtleneck and a jacket to dinner
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Too hot for a turtleneck.
Maybe a dickie.
Ot not.
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You've always struck me as more of an ascot type.
Or perhaps a cravat.
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Cousin Eddie wears a dickie
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Cousin Eddie is a dickie
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Were having sirloins and some creamy/buttery spuds,some fancy broccoli dish, big salad with all the greens and sides in it - and some Shiners Holiday Cheer
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You've always struck me as more of an ascot type.
Or perhaps a cravat.
:D now take that back 94 I had to look up cravat thought it was some sort rodent - 847 being into furs and all
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I try not to pick my teeth with the skewer
yes, I'll be wearing a turtleneck and a jacket to dinner
How about a cravat?
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no need for a scarf
plenty warm here in Texas, perhaps record highs in the 80s
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I'm out on anything where people are pulling utensils out of their mouths and inserting them into a communal pot.
It's poor etiquette to eat directly off your fondue fork.
If that's your experience with fondue, apparently you've been eating with cretins who don't know their manners. Find better friends.
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no need for a scarf
plenty warm here in Texas, perhaps record highs in the 80s
That su-su-su-sucks
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It's poor etiquette to eat directly off your fondue fork.
If that's your experience with fondue, apparently you've been eating with cretins who don't know their manners. Find better friends.
:043: Nothing says Merry Christmas like insulting families of posters .I'm sure most had that figured out, my sister prepared this quite often back in the day. Made sure everyone slid the food off the forked skewers 1st not going all Shaggy and Scoobie on them :111:
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It's poor etiquette to eat directly off your fondue fork.
If that's your experience with fondue, apparently you've been eating with cretins who don't know their manners. Find better friends.
You can get new friends, but not new relatives. :043:
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It's poor etiquette to eat directly off your fondue fork.
If that's your experience with fondue, apparently you've been eating with cretins who don't know their manners. Find better friends.
many here have met my brother, you haven't been so lucky, so far!
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Nobody from the 70s was switching forks.
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swappin spit is an ancient tradition
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That's how they ate it at the Bumpuses aka Brutas's
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I requested the fork switching. Didn't go over too well.
I'm out.
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Damn Bumpuses
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:043: Nothing says Merry Christmas like insulting families of posters .I'm sure most had that figured out, my sister prepared this quite often back in the day. Made sure everyone slid the food off the forked skewers 1st not going all Shaggy and Scoobie on them :111:
I mean, even if our resident "eat it over the kitchen sink" poster knows fondue etiquette..................................
You can get new friends, but not new relatives. :043:
True. I've solved the relative problem by living far away from my blood relatives and marrying into a new clan though :57:
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I mean, even if our resident "eat it over the kitchen sink" poster knows fondue etiquette..................................
well if one is not familiar with the seasons gastronomical offerings and doesn't read dinning etiquette from Emily Post,Miss Manners,Martha Stewart or Andrew Zimmern :dance: how would they know?
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True. I've solved the relative problem by living far away from my blood relatives and marrying into a new clan though :57:
Uppity elitist, you
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I'll be making some spaghetti. And maybe some chinese food. Pasta on pasta on pasta.